Conveners
Education and thinking
- Eva Scheideler (Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe)
As a collaborative statistician you have been charged with completing a complicated toxicology analysis regarding levels of harmful chemicals in groundwater. At the conclusion of your presentation, an audience member asks, ‘So, should my cows drink the water?” At least half the audience nods and comments that they, too, would like to know the answer to that question. Clearly, something went...
This talk ties in with the previous two talks in the session: the story and data are from one of the series of cases discussed by Froydis Bjerke, from Animalia, Norway, and the communication focus follows guidelines provided by Jennifer Van Mullekom.
The issues that arise in the case study itself include industrial statistics classics: “is the expensive external laboratory test really better...